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title: A bot cannot know the future or secret scripts; its predictions are… — Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree · tree and pragmatics
description: A bot cannot know the future or secret scripts; its predictions are invented. Who acts: bot, future. A sentence of the lesson «Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree, sentence 15

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A bot cannot know the future or secret scripts; its predictions are invented.

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**Who acts:** bot, future · **What happens:** not know, invent, predict · **To what, where:** future, predictions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree» of the ai course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bot, future), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:007-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots.lesson:15
# text = A bot cannot know the future or secret scripts; its predictions are invented.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 007-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	scripts	script	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	predictions	prediction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | can | a bot | the future or secret scripts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer future=Stimulus |
| 2 | **invent** | present · passive |  | future's predictions |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **predict** |  | future |  |  |  |  |  | nom prediction «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:ai:007-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots.lesson:15`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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